“I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).”

— Ayelet Waldman

Blog post http://bad-mother.blogspot.com/2005/02/end.html<br>Regarding blogging

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American- Israeli writer 1964

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